Dystactella vetusta (Meek, 1871) Bailey, 2021

Bailey, Jack Bowman, 2021, The genera that never were: The impact of Janeia and Janacekia on phyletic and taxonomic relations within the Solemyidae (Bivalvia: Protobranchia), Palaeontologia Electronica (a 12) 24 (1), pp. 1-47 : 32-33

Dystactella vetusta (Meek, 1871) n. comb.

Remarks. Judged by Meek (1871, p. 67) to be possible synonym of S olemya biarmica de Verneuil. Pojeta (1988, p. 217) placed Hall’s (1885)

examples of Dystactella vetusta (Meek) in Dystactella valvulus (Hall and Whitfield) . See D. valvulus (below).

1871 Solemya (Janeia) vetusta Meek , p. 66 [description only; no figure]; Devonian, Corniferous Group, Dublin, Franklin Co., Ohio .

1873 Solemya (Janeia) vetusta Meek ; Meek, p. 206, pl. 18, fig. 4 [Pr1, Ne]; Devonian, Corniferous Group, Dublin, Franklin Co., Ohio .

1877 Solenomya vetusta Meek ; Miller, p. 204 [no figure].

1878 Solenomya vetusta Meek ; Bigsby, p. 76 [no figure]; Corniferous Limestone, Dublin, Franklin Co., Ohio .

non 1885 Solemya (Janeia) vetusta Meek ; Hall, p. 463, pl. 45, figs. 53-55; pl. 94, fig. 10 [= Dystactella valvulus (Hall and Whitfield) ; see Pojeta, 1988, p. 217].

1889 Solenomya vetusta Meek ; Miller, p. 512, fig. 922 [figure copied from Meek, 1873, pl. 18, fig. 4].

1890 Solemya (Janeia) vetusta Meek ; Lesley, p. 972 [figure copied from Meek, 1873, pl. 18, fig. 4].

1901 Solemya (Janeia) vetusta Meek ; Kindle, p. 690, pl. 16, figs. 1, 1a-b, 2 [Pc, Pr1, Ne, IG]; Middle Devonian, Sellersburg beds; Watson, Indiana , and Falls of the Ohio.

non 1944 Solemya? vetusta Meek ; Shimer and Shrock (?Shimer and Shrock), p. 369, pl. 44, figs. 1, 2 [with figure copies of Hall, 1885, pl. 47, figs. 53, 55; Pojeta (1988, p. 217) referred these to Dystactella valvulus .]; Middle Devonian (Onondaga-Hamilton), New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky.